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Bisonblake said:
Not going to lie, I want the golf course next to the zoo to close down and they decide to buy the land. It would open up so many new possibilities for exhibits and new animals (Small Mammals, Invertebrates, birds of prey, etc.). The zoo could also improve its education efforts by adding exhibits for areas or species being affected by climate change or people. That could display animals affected by pollution, deforestation, wildfires, or natural or human-made disasters.

p.s. I wouldn't be surprised if the golf course closes down because it is in terrible shape. When I did the summer camp in July, I heard some of the counselors talking about how they almost when bankrupt.
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Oh, yes, I know golfers who use the course and if the city, who owns it, puts it up for sale my guess is they'd try to sell to a developer. But yes, every time I go to the zoo, which is about once a month or so, as I walk along the west side behind the bear pits I look across the fence and wonder what the zoo could do with some or all of that nice land.
 
Alex Bensky said:
I haven't heard anything about the bats for quite a while. I sometimes go to the Zoological Society meeting in early June and if I do I'll ask. I still think they need a small mammals house and they should either get rid of the Farm in the Zoo or develop it; it's pretty lame at the moment.
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They need to let guests feed or pet the animals. Watching them just walk around is boring
 
Bisonblake said:
They need to let guests feed or pet the animals. Watching them just walk around is boring
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Right, there's just nothing there other than some domestic animals standing around. If they asked me...and they don't...I'd favor just getting rid of it and putting in another display of some sort. Or they might put in a children's zoo. There used to be one on Belle Isle but it was closed, I think in the early eighties. That was replaced by a small zoo where you visited the exhibits on a raised walkway, and that was allowed to decay.
 
MIZOOenthusiast070128 said:
When I saw the masterplan it showed the lions being in the area around the back of the grizzly bear dens with a new exhibit for them, but I talked to someone a few days ago and the lions may be put in the watering hole exhibit. The watering hole exhibit currently has two elands and an ostrich along with a few smaller animals like a saddle-billed stork and a sulcata tortoise, and these animals would likely be moved into the giraffe and zebra areas. The giraffe and zebra areas may be expanded, there is room for some expansion in that area, but that's speculation. I'm not sure what would happen with the flock pf pink-backed pelicans though, that usually reside in the watering hole exhibit, but are currently in the old Chilean flamingo exhibit.
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I haven't seen the master plan. Can you link to it?
 
What's going on with the exhibits? Pelicans and African spurred tortoise in the guanaco yard, spoonbills and storks in the bush dog yard? I imagine the bush dogs passed away of old age and the birds are a filler until a new animals are put on exhibit, but why keep the pelicans and tortoise with the guanaco and not with the eland like usual? Anybody know what's up with that?
 
MIZOOenthusiast070128 said:
What's going on with the exhibits? Pelicans and African spurred tortoise in the guanaco yard, spoonbills and storks in the bush dog yard? I imagine the bush dogs passed away of old age and the birds are a filler until a new animals are put on exhibit, but why keep the pelicans and tortoise with the guanaco and not with the eland like usual? Anybody know what's up with that?
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The pelicans and tortoise have actually been there for about a year. I’m pretty sure the last bush dog passed away recently. Did you also know there is a species of heron in the anteater habitat now? I was kind of disappointed because they were one of my favorites.
 
Bisonblake said:
The pelicans and tortoise have actually been there for about a year. I’m pretty sure the last bush dog passed away recently. Did you also know there is a species of heron in the anteater habitat now? I was kind of disappointed because they were one of my favorites.
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I know they weren't planning on getting new anteaters once these ones died, but the website still has anteaters listed, and the bush dogs are not listed. They could be moving the anteaters to the guanaco yard to fill in that space. Especially if they're moving the pronghorns soon into the bison yard.
 
Bisonblake said:
The pelicans and tortoise have actually been there for about a year. I’m pretty sure the last bush dog passed away recently. Did you also know there is a species of heron in the anteater habitat now? I was kind of disappointed because they were one of my favorites.
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That whole guanaco yard area is supposed to be a play area if I remember right. So my guess is they're going to fill in the exhibit until they start construction, and move the pelicans and pronghorns to their proper exhibits. Or they could use the yard to house new animals they get for exhibit until construction, but I think the zoo had had issues getting funding for new projects if I remember right, and the penguin surely set them back a lot on their future plans.
 
Bisonblake said:
The pelicans and tortoise have actually been there for about a year. I’m pretty sure the last bush dog passed away recently. Did you also know there is a species of heron in the anteater habitat now? I was kind of disappointed because they were one of my favorites.
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What species of heron?
 
birdsandbats said:
What species of heron?
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I don’t actually remember, I couldn’t find it either. The picture on the sign makes it look like it’s a smaller species of heron, like the boat-billed heron.

edit: I believe it was a black-crowned night heron.
 
From my visit today, it looks like the grizzly bear who lived in the smaller exhibit behind the main one has passed away. There aren’t any signs next to the exhibit anymore telling guests that a grizzly bear lives here, so I assumed that there wasn’t a grizzly there anymore. I also heard before she was getting really old, so I’m not surprised if she passed.
 
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